Word: nihilisme
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Lillian Hellman's rebuke to George Kennan after he bemoaned the irresponsibility and nihilism of youth had the same effect. Abandoning rhetoric and argument, Hellman recalled talking with Kennan in a European cafe decades before. "We've had so many common experiences," she said. "How come we feel so differently...
An atmosphere of hysterical malediction gradually infests the room. At the crucial moment, the young man loses his chance for infamous glory as a hundred assassins gun down the President in a communal murder. Despite its grisly theme, the play is acridly funny in its satire of a society that...
Died. Marcel Duchamp, 81, France's Grand Dada of art, whose iconoclastic paintings, "readymades" and other assemblages of the early 1900s became cryptic formulas for the future; in Neuilly, France. "An explosion in a shingle factory!" hooted a critic, and guards had to restrain angry art lovers when Duchamp...
Many things can happen in John Earth's funhouse, but getting lost is not likely to be one of them. Whenever the rubber spiders and indiscreetly aimed jets of air become too threatening, the lights suddenly flash on and Proprietor Barth himself ambles in and starts explaining about the...
We have heard a great deal of late about the so-called nihilism of this student movement, about our alleged love of rebellion for its own sake, about the pleasure we supposedly derive from the very act of disruption. But if that is all you see, then you have a...